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Bull Shannon said:
I have a very bad track record for judging an album off its singles, or the singles themselves outside the context of the album, so big grain of salt. And I’m very prone to hedging my bets, MM-wise. I do truly hope it’s good; Moon and Antarctica truly changed how I view music and what it can be.
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I mean, I get it. Strangers to Ourselves was probably my most disappointing album of last decade (though I love like half of it) and We Were Dead took years to grow on me and is still not on the same level of their other work (though I think songs like Dashboard and Flordia have proven to have been ahead of their time and pre-cursors to a lot of the electro Indie that dominated the early 10's).

M&A and Lonesome Crowded meanwhile-- are both in my top 10 of all-time.

Worth noting NME Gave Strangers a 3 1/2 which is basically exactly what I would have given it.

Out of 5:

Long Drive: 4
Building Pieces: 4 1/2
Lonesome Crowded: 5
M&A: 5
Good News: 4 1/2
We Were Dead: 4
Strangers: 3 1/2
 
Ten years of a landmark album for me.

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Pitchfork Reviews: Rescored

We’ve all thought about it: Here are 19 album review scores that we’d change if we could.
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Not sure if this is the place, but Pitchfork proposed changing several of their review scores and explains why. It's mad corny imo; most of their reasoning boils down to "we were overhyped for this album and are disappointed it didn't have as much cultural impact as we'd hoped," or "we were being snobs but it turns out mainstream music culture loves this thing so we're falling in line."
 
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